Attempts were also made to torch a supermarket which had been targeted on Saturday night, and a report was made of criminal damage to a family home in the Pandora Street area with windows broken, the PSNI said
Police say a man in his 30s was taken to hospital after he was seriously assaulted during a second night of rioting and disorder in South Belfast on Monday night.
The PSNI says it "strongly condemns the disgraceful scenes of violence on the streets" of South Belfast. "Earlier in the evening, a protest and counter-protest involving approximately 40 people had formed in the area of Ormeau Avenue around 5pm. "During the course of the serious disorder, authorised officers discharged two Attenuating Energy Projectiles with one rioter struck on the hand.
Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Melanie Jones said: “This disorder, violence and destruction has no place in Belfast or anywhere else across the streets of Northern Ireland.
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